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Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural… — Kenny Smith
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to… — Jules Henry
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children — George Will
The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a… — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up whatâ€™s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted… — Alistair Begg
The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more… — Abraham Lincoln
People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we… — Mae Jemison
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself. — Caroline Myss
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for… — Christopher Columbus
What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task . Usually it's best to have two or three people… — Reid Hoffman
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most… — Tim Ferriss
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer
Pennsylvania is facing challenging economic times, a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and negative cash flow projections. My Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization Task Force will… — Tom Wolf
It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it… — Martin Van Creveld
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to… — Stan Kelly-Bootle
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. — Peter Drucker
Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make… — Nate Ruess
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world. — Al Gore

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